It is easy to find culprits for the food crisis in Africa,
from the West's push for biofuels to China's newly well-fed middle
class. The fact is that food supplies are short and prices therefore
high in the short term - and probably in the long term to...
President George Bush's five-country African tour on 16-21 February met with varied reactions. He was burned in effigy in Dar es Salaam and praised in Kigali by Irish singer and activist Bob Geldof, who said that Bush has 'done more (for Africa) than any ...
The planned new military headquarters will stay in Europe because of the widespread hostility to it in Africa
Just before President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife, Carla Bruni, set off on their African safari on 27 February to Chad, South Africa and Angola, Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation issued a damning indictment of conditions in France’s former African col...
The rich world's economies are sick and the looming recession
in the United States has already triggered days of panic
selling in Western and now Asian markets. Africa is caught in
the middle of what many regard as part of a longer term shift
of econo...
Fund managers are keeping one eye on the global market twitches and another on some of Africa’s rockier political systems as they try to assess news risk in 2008. For the last five years, Africa has an enjoyed a favoured but frontier market status.
Feted in Lisbon, African leaders left the summit frustrated by post-colonial squabbles and the lack of better trade proposals
Bored with the fractious Euro-African summit in Lisbon on
8-9 December, French President Nicolas Sarkozy used
the opportiunity to try to patch up quarrels with Côte
d'Ivoire, Rwanda and Angola.
The great and good have met and argued vigorously over which
African head of state should be the first to receive the Mohammed Fathi
Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership to be
announced on 22 October. For those unable to bear the suspens...
Washington seeks Anglo-French support as it steps up its military presence in Africa
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